Constitutional Policing Unit Manager

Pay Range: $49.17 – $63.92/hr. | $102,277 – $132,959 annual compensation

Job Posting Closing on: Wednesday, February 25, 2026 📅

Workdays & Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, and Professional Development Opportunities. Find Out More!

The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of over 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability. 🌆

A Constitutional Policing Unit Manager is available with the City of Fort Worth Police Department. Under the general direction of the Chief of Police, this position is responsible for establishing and overseeing internal mechanisms for proactive self-assessment and self-correction. The role leads unit strategy, system-level reviews, and reporting efforts with the goals of strengthening internal accountability, advancing data-driven decision-making, promoting continuous improvement, and building community trust.

This position promotes continuous improvement and adherence to the highest legal, ethical, and professional standards while serving as a key advisor to executive leadership. The Manager collaborates closely with sworn command staff, internal experts, oversight entities, and community stakeholders to ensure transparency, accountability, and alignment with constitutional policing principles.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Criminal Justice, Political Science, Public Administration, Business Administration, or a closely related field

• Five (5) years of experience in an investigatory, policy, administrative, or advisory role involving the analysis and resolution of highly complex problems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with constitutional policing, police accountability, or public sector oversight

• Experience conducting organizational or system-level assessments

• Experience developing and presenting executive-level briefings, findings, and recommendations

• Experience collaborating with executive leadership, oversight entities, and community stakeholders

• Experience using data, performance metrics, or continuous improvement methodologies

The Constitutional Policing Unit Manager job responsibilities include:

• Supervises unit staff, including assigning work, conducting performance evaluations, ensuring training, and maintaining compliance with policies and procedures

• Collaborate with the Department’s Criminologist in Residence and other experts to conduct methodologically sound reviews of systems, command levels, and data

• Evaluates departmental alignment with constitutional policing principles, applicable laws, standards, and recognized effective policing practices

• Develops, reviews, and presents evidence-based findings and recommendations to the Chief of Police and executive leadership

• Provides timely guidance through a constitutional policing lens on emerging issues and ongoing challenges

• Leads special initiatives that advance continuous improvement, regulatory review, and training development

• Serves as liaison to internal and external stakeholders, including oversight entities and community partners

• Develops and monitors key performance indicators (KPIs) using appropriate data systems and analytical tools

• Represents the Constitutional Policing Unit at meetings, conferences, and professional forums as directed

• Performs other related duties as required

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, walking and repetitive motions.

Sedentary Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) Background Check

Applicants for this position must pass a Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) fingerprint-based background check and maintain CJIS eligibility. Due to CJIS requirements related to system access, the following will result in being disqualified for this position: Felony Convictions, Felony Deferred Adjudication, Class A Misdemeanor Conviction, Class B Misdemeanor Convictions in the last 10 years, Class A Misdemeanor Deferred Adjudication, Class B Misdemeanor Deferred Adjudication in the last 10 years, an Open Arrest for Any Criminal Offense (Felony or Misdemeanor), and ALL Family Violence Convictions regardless of class.

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Conditions of Employment

The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.

The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.